CVE-2023-53072 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mptcp: use the workqueue to destroy unaccepted sockets

Christoph reported a UaF at token lookup time after having refactored the passive socket initialization part:

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __token_bucket_busy+0x253/0x260 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810698d5b0 by task syz-executor653/3198

CPU: 1 PID: 3198 Comm: syz-executor653 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc59af4eaa31c1f6c00c8f1e448ed99a45c66340dd5 6 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x91 print_report+0x16a/0x46f kasan_report+0xad/0x130 __token_bucket_busy+0x253/0x260 mptcp_token_new_connect+0x13d/0x490 mptcp_connect+0x4ed/0x860 __inet_stream_connect+0x80e/0xd90 tcp_sendmsg_fastopen+0x3ce/0x710 mptcp_sendmsg+0xff1/0x1a20 inet_sendmsg+0x11d/0x140 __sys_sendto+0x405/0x490 __x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

We need to properly clean-up all the paired MPTCP-level resources and be sure to release the msk last even when the unaccepted subflow is destroyed by the TCP internals via inet_child_forget().

We can re-use the existing MPTCP_WORK_CLOSE_SUBFLOW infra explicitly checking that for the critical scenario: the closed subflow is the MPC one the msk is not accepted and eventually going through full cleanup.

With such change __mptcp_destroy_sock() is always called on msk sockets even on accepted ones. We don’t need anymore to transiently drop one sk reference at msk clone time.

Please note this commit depends on the parent one:

mptcp: refactor passive socket initialization

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2827f099b3fb9a59263c997400e9182f5d423e84 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/804cf487fb0031f3c74755b78d8663333f0ba636 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6985b9b82954caa53f862d6059d06c0526254f0